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Residents in Canada’s Northwest Territories welcome highway project, but concerned over social impacts

Natalie Pressman, CBC News @natpressman
Posted: Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 08:52
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The $700-million highway project is a two-lane gravel road that would connect Wrigley to Norman Wells The Mackenzie Valley Highway

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Russia’s assault on Ukraine: MLA in Canada’s Northwest Territories asks for assurances about Arctic security

Sidney Cohen, CBC News
Posted: Friday, March 4, 2022 at 14:56
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Inuvik Twin Lakes MLA says Russia has long expressed interest in Arctic waters As Russia intensifies its assault on Ukraine,

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Communities in Canada’s Northwest Territories need more money; minister says gov’t can’t give it to them

Sidney Cohen, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at 10:39
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Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs says closing municipal funding gap is ‘not realistic’ The Northwest Territories’ minister of Municipal

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MLA in Canada’s Northwest Territories calls on government to establish regional addiction treatment centres

Luke Caroll, CBC News
Posted: Monday, February 28, 2022 at 16:22
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Rocky Simpson says Indigenous community supports establishing proper cultural programming closer to home A Hay River MLA is calling on

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Is Canada’s Northwest Territories in a mental health crisis? MLA, health minister at odds over the answer

Sidney Cohen, CBC News
Posted: Friday, February 25, 2022 at 09:03 — Last Updated: Friday, February 25, 2022 at 09:07
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Great Slave MLA says territory is at a critical point; Health Minister says it’s nothing N.W.T. can’t handle Warning: This

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Departments in Canada’s Northwest Territories failing to offer services in Indigenous languages, says commissioner

Liny Lamberink, CBC News @linylamberink
Posted: Monday, February 21, 2022 at 13:06
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Services offered in English and French, but rarely in 9 official Indigenous languages People should have the option to communicate

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Census 2021: A snapshot of Arctic Canada’s population and dwelling data

The Canadian Press
Posted: Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 12:03
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The census data for 2021 tells a very different story across Canada’s three territories. Yukon led the country in population

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Canada’s Northwest Territories reports 15th COVID-19 death as active cases decrease

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 at 09:23
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1 new hospitlization and 1 new I.C.U admission since Friday There’s been another COVID-related death in the Northwest Territories, the third in

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Duane Smith acclaimed as chair of IRC in Canada’s western Arctic

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Friday, January 21, 2022 at 14:54
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Duane Smith, the incumbent chairperson and CEO of the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation (IRC), has been acclaimed for a new term,

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Canada’s Northwest Territories investigating network of electric vehicle charging stations

Liny Lamberink, CBC News @linylamberink
Posted: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 at 09:00
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Chargers roughly every 100 kilometres would make long-distance travel more feasible Northern winters and long distances between communities pose challenges

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Meet the 3 northerners being named to the Order of Canada

Luke Caroll, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, December 29, 2021 at 10:51
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Being named to the Order of Canada is, for one longtime Yellowknifer, made more special by the fact another Indigenous

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33 new Inuvialuit murals to be displayed in communities across Canada’s Northwest Territories

Clara Pasieka · CBC News
Posted: Monday, December 20, 2021 at 13:23
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Six N.W.T. communities are about to get more colourful. Thirty-three murals have been commissioned by the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation (IRC)

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Community in Canada’s Northwest Territories explores more solar, wind power to offset diesel needs

CBC News
Posted: Monday, December 13, 2021 at 10:50
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The Lutselk’e Dene First Nation in the N.W.T. is working on a project to expand renewable energy generation in the community,

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Correctional centre in Canada’s Northwest Territories introduces therapeutic program

Julia Peterson, CBC News
Posted: Friday, December 10, 2021 at 09:13
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There are currently six people enrolled in the program, with a new cohort starting soon A new program at the

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Canada’s Northwest Territories prepping for more travel-related COVID cases, say health officials

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, December 9, 2021 at 14:06 — Last Updated: Thursday, December 9, 2021 at 16:51
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“We’re getting to the point where the main exposure [in the N.W.T.] will be travel-related’ The N.W.T.’s chief public health officer,

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